Embodied Cognition Quotes

Our bodies hold our minds hostage to their whims and rhythms.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

The body is a vehicle for the mind, and that vehicle is how you travel through space.

When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.

...separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.

There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body.

My mind can never know my body, although it has become quite friendly with my legs.

When mental development is under discussion, there are many who say, 'How does movement come into it? We are talking about the mind.' And when we think of intellectual activity, we always imagine people sitting still, motionless. But mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea.

The development of the mind comes through movement

Thought is just an apprehension of touch.

We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.

Andy Clark has several books you can find on Amazon, including 'Natural Born Cyborgs' and 'Being There.' I particularly recommend 'Being There' to anybody who still thinks the Cartesian separation of mind and body should be taken seriously.

We do not merely perceive objects and hold thoughts in our minds: all our perceptions and thought processes are felt. All have a distinctive component that announces an unequivocal link between images and the existence of life in our organism.

Many scholars working in the humanities have already shown interest in brain research. For years, contemporary theory in the humanities has left the body and biology out of their discussions.

Since it is through movement that the will realises itself, we should assist a child in his attempts to put his will into act.

But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to manipulation, involve our hands and eyes, and then our minds and souls, in a spiritual adventure I would be very sorry for my grandchildren not to know about.

Remember that experience creates internalization. Doing things repeatedly leads to internalization, which produces a quality of understanding that is generally vastly superior to intellectualized learning.

Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body.

Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.

Much more of the brain is devoted to movement than to language. Language is only a little thing sitting on top of this huge ocean of movement.

Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind - or you might say, a reflection of your mind in the body.

Mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea.

Your hands learn to do things that you could spend a whole day trying to write about and articulate. There's a discomfort associated with trying to put all those different ways the brain works together. I kind of like to avail myself of that discomfort.

Self-awareness includes awareness of your body.